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(Message started by: edward on Oct 9^th, 2003, 9:04am)

Title: one sentence is from this word
Post by edward on Oct 9^th, 2003, 9:04am

Do you know the answer to this riddle

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by edward on Oct 9^th, 2003, 9:13am

u see noone nos the answer

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by James Fingas on Oct 9^th, 2003, 9:19am

I'm sure we all know what the answer is. The problem is that nobody knows what the question is.

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by Icarus on Oct 9^th, 2003, 5:28pm

A believe the question is: "One sentence is from this word."

This is a bit puzzling. "One word is from this sentence." would be trivial: the answer is "missing".

But reversing those two words makes it difficult to come up with an answer that is satisfying. Perhaps the answer is "mixed-up"?

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by SWF on Oct 9^th, 2003, 7:53pm

This twenty one word sentence is easily changed from this meaningful statment to a six word nonsense riddle by removing words.

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by Rezyk on Oct 11^th, 2003, 4:10pm

What one whacked sentence riddle is made from taking this question and removing every other word, every "and", and every "every"?

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by BNC on Oct 12^th, 2003, 12:30am

on 10/11/03 at 16:10:20, Rezyk wrote:

What one whacked sentence riddle is made from taking this question and removing every other word, every "and", and every "every"?

one sentence is from this removing word?
:P

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by Speaker on Oct 13^th, 2003, 6:45pm

One sentence is made from this word.

That word is [hide] attendance "At ten, dance!" In the declarative. [/hide]

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by wowbagger on Oct 14^th, 2003, 1:59am

on 10/12/03 at 00:30:02, BNC wrote:

one sentence is from this removing word?
:P

BNC, if we remove in the order given, i.e. first every other word, then every "and", then every "every", Rezyk's idea works out.

Speaker, I think that's an [hide]imperative[/hide], not a [hide]declarative[/hide]. Anyway, using the assumption you made, it's a nice solution.

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by Speaker on Oct 14^th, 2003, 5:21pm

wowbagger, it is [hide]imperative, the imperative mood, but it is also a declarative sentence. Since the riddle called for a sentence, I did it that way. At least that was my intention, now maybe I am just trying to support my answer with some grammatical hoodoo. The more I look at this, the more imperative it becomes to agree with you. :-[ [/hide]

Title: Re: one sentence is from this word
Post by wowbagger on Oct 16^th, 2003, 4:25am

on 10/14/03 at 17:21:58, Speaker wrote:

[hide]it is also a declarative sentence.[/hide]

You're right - I just didn't get it back then. I would have put a dash between your word and the explanation and written the "In" in lowercase. At least I'd have gotten it immediately then. ;)